The sunrise was worth waking up early for

📷 https://bsky.app/profile/foxholes.bsky.social
Spotty: https://sig.dog

#spottyshots #photography #fursuit #fursuitphotography

wake up babe, #skychildrenofthelight finally (really) releasing on steam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feOR2GZxs2s
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2325290/view/4209250258905432755

Official Steam Launch Trailer

Join us as the enchanting world of Sky: Children of the Light celebrates its highly anticipated release on Steam! PC gamers and SteamDeck users will have the...

^YouTube

Random fursuit photo from the archives.

Faith vixen under The Estrel during Eurofurence 26 in 2022.

Just quit Twitter, was starting to use Mastodon when someone reminded me Bluesky existed

Assuming my single brain cell can only keep active in one place, should I hang out here or the other place?

Will stay with whichever side gets more likes xD

Anyway, fursuit photo tax

honestly, the "good fucking luck with that" license is a perfect encapsulation of how i prefer doing open source.

Others can use my code, I'm gonna keep using it. But don't expect me to maintain it for others. If it breaks and I don't need to fix it for myself it's not my problem.

I'm a game developer first and foremost though. So that definitely colours my perception of the space.

Revolut does not have a UK banking licence.

If you are a victim of fraud you'll be SOL.

Best advice; close your account and move conventional bank elsewhere.

Please boost to make people in the UK aware.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/apr/10/im-a-victim-of-scammers-but-revolut-says-no-to-a-refund

#fraud

I’m a victim of scammers. But Revolut says ‘no’ to a refund

The company seems to hold me entirely responsible for the fact £40,000 was stolen

^{Miles Brignall (The Guardian)}

Next up: Tesla's Autopilot is actually just some dude in India driving your car with a Playstation controller.

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actually-1-000-people-in-india-2024-4?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar

Amazon's Just Walk Out actually uses 1,000 people in India

Amazon promoted Just Walk Out as AI-powered cashierless technology. But the tech reportedly relied on workers in India for accuracy.

^{Alex Bitter (Insider)}

"$person is so successful. Look at all the projects they've completed and documented."

The documented projects:

In a warning today the election watchdog the Electoral Commission said voters have until midnight on Tuesday April 16 to register. While 44million are registered to vote in May's local elections as many as seven MILLION are incorrectly registered - or missing entirely from the register, check your entry on the register and amend.
#GTTO #ToryFascistDictatorship
#ToryCorruption #ToryLiars

https://www.gov.uk/electoral-register

The electoral register and the 'open register'

Getting on the electoral register, what happens if you do not register to vote, registering in more than one place, how to opt out of the 'open register', registering anonymously and how to view the electoral register

^{Government Digital Service (GOV.UK)}

Alan Bates is already the folk hero of the Horizon IT debacle, but his inquiry evidence confirms that in Bates the Govt & Post Office picked the wrong adversary; his steely determination already depicted on TV to devastating effect, is one of a key reason successive Govt.s & PO management teams have been unable to bury this injustice.

While nothing about the actions of the PO & Govt. in this case now surprise me, this a picture of what is wrong with Britain.

#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/09/alan-bates-tells-inquiry-post-office-spent-decades-lying-and-trying-to-discredit-me

Alan Bates tells Post Office inquiry ministers tried to sabotage his claim

Campaigner at forefront of fight for justice over faulty Horizon system says government should have been involved far earlier

^{Daniel Boffey (The Guardian)}

“Note even utility boxes and machinery get yellow steel poles for protection. Cyclists get plastic”

https://sf.streetsblog.org/2024/04/09/eyes-on-the-street-san-francisco-joins-the-sidewalk-level-bike-lane-club

#ExplainVintageTechnology
#HashtagGames

Analogue Virtual Reality

Can we all just marvel for a second at the fact that NASA has found the error that caused Voyager 1 to send bad data, and is working on a solution?

The probe is 163.163 Astronomical Units from the Sun. That's 24408837426 km, and counting (rather quickly at that).

NASA can work around hardware issues in a 46 year old device in outer space. What does that say about the commercial hardware and software industry?

One of the cooler things I've figured out in the last year or so is that "falling asleep" is a skill that one can deliberately practice and get better at.

Hard to articulate exactly how, but the key points are:
- not getting agitated over still being awake, or moments of slight rousing
- paying attention to what it feels like to start slipping into sleep, and habitualize using that as a cue for further relaxation

Fresh results from another guaranteed basic income pilot. This time from Seattle's King County where 102 people got $500/mo for 10 months.

Employment nearly doubled from 37% to 66%

Average income from jobs went up by $410/mo

Retirement plans nearly tripled

Percent with any savings of those with kids went from 0% to 42%

Percent with any savings of those without kids went from 24% to 35%

Participants also reported gains in health and well-being
https://www.seakingwdc.org/latest-news/gbi-report

“There are two clear reasons for the destruction of Gaza: vengeance and ethnic cleansing. Neither can be articulated because both are crimes.”
~Fintan O’Toole, The Irish Times

☕️

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, of Higgs boson fame, dies at 94

Higgs shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with François Englert.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-peter-higgs-of-higgs-boson-fame-dies-at-94/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

The death of Peter Higgs is sad news. I remember him being in the green room at the Cheltenham Science Festival years ago, and he was so humble and polite to everyone. Dara Ó Briain (the comedian) was there, and he'd brought an empty jam jar with a hand-written label that said "this jar contains 1 Higgs Boson. Certified by... " and he got Peter Higgs to sign the bottom. (apparently that's the average number present). The jam jar made everyone very happy.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/09/peter-higgs-physicist-who-discovered-higgs-boson-dies-aged-94

Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94

Nobel-prize winning physicist who showed how particle helped bind universe together died at home in Edinburgh

^{Severin Carrell (The Guardian)}

Reminder: donate to your instance!

Every €1 you give them is basically a little kiss on the lips.

All week: I can't wait for the weekend when I can play with my hobbies and radios, fix motorbikes, cycle, read, sleep, recover from the work-week

All weekend: Mope, mope, mope (gets nothing done)

Here's a half-formed thought I need to mull a bit on:

Somehow, algorithmic (and especially "AI-driven") decision making tends to only be proposed in contexts where it can only — or mostly — affect those with the least power in the system.

Migrants and asylum seekers.
Prisoners.
Families using any form of state support (child benefits, foodstamps, etc).
Palestinians in Gaza.

It somehow never gets proposed for use-cases where it might affect the wealthy and powerful.

One wonders why. 🤔

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It's #UNICORNDAY! 🦄 Pleeeeease show us your unicorn characters? 🥺 We would love to make more unicorn fursuits!

#fursuit #fursuitmaker #furryfandom #furry